This is the 2023 pastoral letter from Br. Armin Luistro, FSC, Superior General of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. It follows a long-held tradition whereby the Superior General provides pastoral reflections for the body of the Institute and all of its members. This letter consists of sixteen vignettes “that connect us with the experiences and stories of real people made of flesh, wounded and scarred, risk-takers all.”
From Br. Armin’s email on December 24, 2023
Dear Brothers, dear members of the Lasallian Family:
My pastoral letter this year in 2023 is focused on our life together. It’s entitled: “Finite. Fragile. Free.”
In this pastoral letter I am helped by the stories of people from the field. Sixteen scenes – I called them vignettes – 16 sketches to connect us with the experiences and stories of real people made of flesh, wounded and scarred, risk-takers all. They remain as pilgrims on different trails; none has reached their Promise Land. They grapple daily with imminent fears. They wrestle with God in their nakedness. They live in liminality. Yet they choose to live their humanity fully. Finite. Fragile. Free.
It gives me much pleasure and much joy to greet all of you a very merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.
